This young, ambitious, persevering Swedish woman, whom you must understand was practically uneducated, had never had the least instruction in chemistry. She knew practically nothing at all of any kind of acids, and positively nothing of the kind she was told to use, and did use, with such perfect results.

She did have, however, great faith in prayer, and for months and months prayed that this secret might be revealed to her. One night during her sleep, a man came to her whom she describes as follows: “Past middle age; smooth, kindly face, very pleasing, soft voice.” He said to her—O so kindly:

“Selma, arise and come with me, and I will show you how to make the perfect mantle. If you will do exactly as I say, you shall have the desire of your heart.”

She obeyed. Arising from her bed (in her dream) she followed the gentle kindly guide. He led her directly to the factory, and went inside, she following. He proceeded to open certain packages that appeared as he needed them. He told her what each one contained and showed her exactly how to use it.

This is the formula as she told it to the writer: First: He made a solution with water and simple baking soda. Second: The same proceeding, using ammonia. Third: Muriatic Acid. Fourth: Sulphuric Acid.

Then he dipped a knitted web of a gas-mantle in the solution until, after the fourth dipping, he smilingly told her it was “purified,” and would give the beautiful light she had been trying for so long to make a web radiate. He said she would always have the perfect result she had been praying for, if she obeyed his exact instructions. He then took her back to her bed and disappeared.

Immediately upon awakening from her sleep, she arose and wrote down exactly what she had learned. With the acids she was not at all familiar, but at once procured them, and obeyed implicitly all instructions as given her. Her faith and obedience were abundantly rewarded—the result was precisely what she had been praying for so long—a perfect mantle, or web for the mantles.

The sale of this product was instant and tremendous. These mantles made with this chemically-treated webbing by someone